Sunday, January 23, 2011

Chris Steele-Perkins

This picture is in the courtyard of the mental hospital run by the Edhi Foundation in 1997.
I found this picture to be extremely interesting for a few different reasons. The color, the geometric shapes, and the mysterious views. The black and white in this photo is extreme. It makes the room or gated area seem extremely deep as well. The geometric shapes consume the entire photo. The geometric shapes also make the virtical and horizontal lines very distinct. It seems that they are in crossed patterned throughout the whole photograph. Also, when looking at the photo the viewers wonder what is happening on the inside from looking from the outside and what they are seeing from inside looking out. I wonder what the photographer was thinking when he took this photo and why he took it. I am curious by the positions of everyone's bodies. They are lying down, sitting and standing... but you cannot ever see an entire body to even read their body language.

Rhody12

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